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this is a blatant and predictable attempt to get all the sheeple to get back in line and stop making waves
the degree to which we have achieved Orwell's nightmare is astonishing. As Michael Moore so accurately put it, the media have not been doing their jobs of informing We the People of the facts, and in the process, the failures of our elected representative to do their jobs, both legislatively and in oversight capacity.
Our three-plus-one part* government has been reduced to an oligarchy with the Unitary President as the CEO.
They are so close they can taste it to a complete and irrevocable takeover. Had it not been for Nixon screwing up over Watergate they'd have made it years ago. They had to wait out the Carter years, but made great strides under Reagan. Progress was once again delayed, but not reversed] under Clinton. Deregulation laid the foundation for the rise of unfettered full-bore greed-driven capitalism, with massive consolidation reducing competition and "globalization" redefining the entire labor market.
Reagan started cutting back on New Deal social programs, but mostly focused on getting big business firmly entrenched ready to assume control.
Clinton managed to "pull a Nixon" via monicagate, and the cabal swept their sock puppet, dried out and rebranded as an "executive" by being placed in the Texas Governor role as soon as his old man lost, into position. It required chicanery beyond just fooling the voters into believing he was anything but a chemically-dependent sociopath, but they were ready for that and pulled it off via a family affair, with brother Jeb and kindly Uncle Jim prominent players, but a nationwide cosa nostra-like machine working quite well.
Now once again they face a perturbation in their march to world dominance. Getting a war started as soon as possible was on the agenda from well before the 2000 election - in fact, from the moment the Cold War was declared over they have been anxious to create new markets for the war business. Reagan's Star Wars was one, but it got low-keyed during Clinton's tenure. Their initial plan was to ramp it back up. In the months before 9/11, all they wanted to talk about was the "missile shield" - the "need" to spend mega-billions on the highest-tech stuff possible.
Without speculating as to the level of complicity in 9/11, suffice it to say that refusal even to discuss the intelligence about terrorist threats certainly helped to "let it happen on purpose." So that event was a big break. It provided the excuse to throw out the remaining vestiges of regulation, governance, civil liberties - hell, the entire Constitution, as quickly as possible.
They had already developed a theory that they could achieve world domination through imperialism - essentially mimicking Hitler in his march across Europe, but extrapolating it to the entire world, starting in the mideast with the seven-country strategy by striking during the 15-20 year window in which the US would be the only "superpower." Now suddenly there was a greater sense both of urgency and opportunity. What would have required some level of restraint due to likely reluctance of the American People to just rebrand themselves as brutes during that long march to world domination now could be accelerated. "We the People" could be just plain lied to and led to believe it by dangling "9/11" on a string and swinging it back and forth before our eyes.
The once "free and independent" press had been tidily taken over via all that corporate restructuring under and after Reagan, and was the designated instrument to hold that string and swing it back and forth.
"y o u ... a r e ... g e t t i n g ... s l e e p y..." "P a r i s ... H i l t o n..." "n i n e ... e l e v e n..." "f o r g e t ... a b o u t ... y o u r ...p r o b l e m s..." "A n n a ... N i c o l e ...S m i t h ..." "y o u ... d o n ' t ... c a r e ... t h a t ... y o u r ...j o b ... w a s ... o u t s o u r c e d..." "y o u ... a r e ... v e r y ... s l e e p y..." "i t ... i s ... g o o d ... t h a t ... y o u ... c a n ' t ... g e t ... h e a l t h c a r e ..." "w h o ... n e e d s ... w i l d l i f e ...... a n y w a y ?..."
Congress was tidily sewed up under their control, and it happily quit conducting oversight hearings, just basically became a placeholder, except when they wanted a regulation rolled back. People were getting rich without having to work much - they had a three-day workweek, plenty of K Street dollars flowing in, and the people seemed complacent as hell, even coming so close to reelecting them that it took even less chicanery to seal the deal for another four years. Life was good, and the end was in sight.
Now that the long-sleeping Congress is stirring a bit, showing signs of starting to resume its role, they are trying to tell the sheeple
"y o u ... d o n ' t ... l i k e ... d i s s e n t..." "y o u ... w a n t ... y o u r ... b l a n k i e ... b a c k..."
Oh, and don't forget:
"U n c l e ... F r e d ... w i l l ... k i s s ... t h e ... b o o ... b o o ... a n d ... m a k e ... i t ... a l l b e t t e r ... "J u s t ...l i k e ... U n c l e ... R o n n i e...
*the "free and independent press" being the fourth, the "Fourth Estate"
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